On Wed, 16 May 2001, J S Russell wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Steve Phillips wrote:
After bailing our Telecom account manager up about the latest excuse as to why Telecom are not willing to peer, it came back that the Tax Dept are claiming that the people peering at APE are committing tax fraud due to the traffic traveling across the APE link having a real dollar value associated with it.
They've been kicking this one around for some time now. I've seen a copy of their proposed peering agreement which has precisely this sort of stuff in it. Given that no other ISP appears to have been told by the IRD that this is an issue it smells like a way for Telecom to avoid peering with zero sum settlements. I'd say they're betting on pushing people into a regime that says, "We'll charge you x cents for every Mb you take from us. You can charge us y cents for each Mb we take from you". Naturally this will be constructed so that the net result is that TSNZ makes money here. Sounds depressingly like the phone interconnect agreements they had with other NZ providers doesn't it? --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog